War memorial of the 24th Division, Battersea Park is a Grade II* listed building in the Wandsworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 2005. War memorial.
War memorial of the 24th Division, Battersea Park
- WRENN ID
- lost-remnant-plover
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wandsworth
- Constituency
- Battersea MP: Marsha De Cordova (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 2005
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- TQ 282 773
- Coordinates
- 51.48051, -0.15383
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial in Battersea Park commemorates the 24th Division and dates from the First World War. Designed and sculpted by Eric Henri Kennington RA (1888-1960), it is constructed from Portland stone. The memorial features three infantry soldiers depicted with helmets, rifles and full kit, accompanied by a serpent at their feet. The figure on the left was modelled on the poet and writer Robert Graves. The columnar base is inscribed with "XXIV Division France 1914-1918" around the top, above the unit badges of the twenty regiments that comprised the Division. The memorial commemorates over 10,000 men killed or missing presumed dead whilst serving with the 24th Infantry Division. It was unveiled on 4 October 1924 by Field Marshall Plumer and the Bishop of Southwark. The memorial is considered of both historic and visual interest, demonstrating elegant sculptural qualities in its depiction of infantry soldiers by the renowned war artist Eric Kennington. It is an unusually avant-garde war memorial, notable for its depiction of Robert Graves, author of the war memoir 'Goodbye to All That'. The memorial sits within the registered grade II* Battersea Park.
Local climate
War memorial of the 24th Division, Battersea Park sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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